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INSTALLBOOT(8) System Manager's Manual (aviion) INSTALLBOOT(8)

installbootinstall a bootstrap on a disk

installboot [-nv] boot rawdev

installboot is used to install a boot program into the VDM boot area of a disk.

The options are as follows:

Do not actually write anything on the disk.
Be verbose, printing out boot area and boot file information.

The arguments are:

boot
The name of the boot program to be installed.
rawdev
The name of the raw disk device in which the boot program is to be installed. It may be abbreviated into a form recognizable by opendev(3).

# /usr/mdec/installboot /usr/mdec/boot sd0

disklabel(8), init(8)

September 29, 2013 OpenBSD-5.5